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Local Profile is not saved

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by gunnersixz

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Do you have to be a member of the administrator's group to be able to save your settings when you log off? The computer is a member of a domain and I have tried using a domain user account in the local power users group and it does not save the settings, it only does when I add that domain account to the local administrator's group. Any clarification would be appreciated.

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by w2ktechman

I beleive that all users have their accounts saved, even if they are not administrators. you may have a bad SAM file, or group policies are preventing it.

by joseph moore

Check your profile (in C:\Documents & Settings\USERNAME) and see if the file NTUSER has a .DAT extension or a .MAN extension.
If it has a .MAN extension, then it is set to be a mandatory profile that does NOT save changes upon logout.
You can just rename it to the .DAT extension to set it to a normal profile that will save changes upon logout.
Anyway, give that a shot.

by joseph moore

If that is not the issue, look at the Security tab on the C:\Documents & Settings\USERNAME folder to see if your user profile has the correct permissions. You could set your user profile to have Full Control permisssions. That would rule out any NTFS security problems preventing profile saving.

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